as-salaam alaykum.
Sister Zakiyah Karim informed me that an article was inadvertently published under my name. While I had specifically declined to authorize the article [please see below], emails crossed and Mrs. Karim went forward with publication. Mrs. Karim has been a wonderful, professional editor at all times in the past, and I look forward to continuing my relationship with an active part of the Detroit Muslim family.
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From: editor@muhammadspeaks.com
Date: Jul 5, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: Please Forgive my Terrible Error
To: srmuhammad@gmail.com
As-Salaam-Alaikum Sister Maryam!
I have made a HUGE MISTAKE of taking for granted that your delayed response
was an oversight and printed the article with your name on it. I will make
a public apology for my error in the next edition. I am so very sorry.
Your Sister,
Zakiyah Karim
Original Message:
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From: Maryam Sharron Muhammad srmuhammad@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:53:24 -0400
To: editor@muhammadspeaks.com
Subject: Re: Permission to print this edited version of your writing in
upcoming Muhammad Speaks
Wa-laykum salaam Sister Zakiyah,
Thank you for the wonderful offer. The article hits the Democratic party in
all the right points. It's clearer than anything that I'd write on my own:
- The article is so changed that I don't feel right having my name on it.
I hope that credit is given to the actual author.
For this reason, I cannot approve having my name on it, though I will not be
voting for Democrats or Republicans, and I completely agree with the
author's attacks on the awful mischaracterizations and violent lynching in
effigy of Michelle Obama... As my "second mom" is European Jewish (converted
Ashkenazi ethnos, I believe) and has been since I was 12, there is no way I
can approve statements about Jewish power over whites- WWII and the
exterminations, the Church's Inquisitions, and U.S. discrimination prove
that white so-called Christians were the problem.
I hope the actual author gets credit, because I've never written anything
that powerful...
Aho, Rahmat, Ma salaam
Maryam (I firmly believe this is my Divinely given name)
On 6/15/08, editor@muhammadspeaks.com
>
> As-Salaam-Alaikum Sister Sharron!
>
> You have sent me so many WONDERFUL ARTICLES to choose from. Please see the
> attachment I am sending, for your approval, that I would like to print in
> the July, 2008 edition of Muhammad Speaks.
>
>
